Executive Office, Iowa,
Iowa City, Jan. 6, 1863.
General: — I wish I could shake hands with you and express to you verbally
my thanks and congratulations for the well fought battle and dearly won victory
of Prairie Grove. I have transmitted to the 19th and 20th letters of thanks,
which I hope will be read to them. They have proved themselves worthy to be
called “Iowa boys.”
General, you are surpassing yourself. Your name is in all
men's mouths, and the people delight to speak the praises of our plucky little
Iowa general. Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove make a record of
which any man may well be proud, and I assure you you can't feel more pride in
that record than I do.
Very respectfully
your obedient servant,
SAMUEL J. KIRKWOOD.
Brig.-Gen. J. F. Herron,
Commanding 2nd Division Army Frontier
SOURCE: Henry Warren Lathrop, The Life and Times of
Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa's War Governor, p. 234
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